Marian Kratochwil, Poppies in Greenery

26,0 x 34,0cm - oil, canvas On the back scratched out author's inscription - signature: MARIAN KRATOCHWIL | POLAND



♣ to the auctioned price in addition to other costs will be added a fee arising from the right of the artist and his heirs to receive remuneration in accordance with the Act of February 4, 1994 - on Copyright and Related Rights (droit de suite)

Marian Gleb Kratochwil (Kosiv in the Hutsul region 1906 - London 1997) - painter and graphic artist - in 1926 began studying philosophy at Lviv University, and at the same time studied drawing with Stanislav Batovsky. In 1932 he began to paint his first oil paintings. After serving a year in the army, he moved to Warsaw in 1936, joined the Academy of Fine Arts, and showed his works - paintings and drawings from Podolia and Volhynia - at a large solo exhibition at the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in October 1936. In the same year, at the Zachęta National Salon, he was awarded a bronze medal for Sunday in Ożomla (the painting featured in the current auction). In 1937 he exhibited in Cracow, in 1938 and in the spring of 1939 he participated in exhibitions in Lviv. During the war he served in the army; in 1940 he ended up in Scotland. There he created a series of his prints entitled War. From 1947 he lived in London; in oil and watercolor he painted a series of city views. In the 1950s he made several trips to Spain, painting paintings on Spanish themes (Don Quixote series). In 1970 he painted in Venice. In the same year he donated a dozen paintings to the National Museums in Cracow and Warsaw, and in 1979 about 60 paintings to the National Museum in Cracow, where a large exhibition of the artist's works was held a year later.